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To: allmendream
If you start as the average black kid with an IQ of 90 or less the difference between he and an average east Asian is 20 points of which - according to your calculations - 8 points are due to genetics. Then there's the 2 points that are due to factors which cannot be manipulated, leaving 50% or 10 points to environmental factors.

Environmental factors are more easily manipulated than genes but that's far from saying it's easily done. In fact, it's almost impossible. If your parents are overweight, illiterate, morons who've never worked in their lives, and all their friends are similar, which is likely, then YOU ARE TOAST.

All that is assuming your interpretation of heritability is correct. I don't think it is...but it'd take quite a bit of research to be sure. I'll give you a hint as to why I think you're wrong. The IQ distribution curve is bell shaped, not linear.

106 posted on 07/07/2008 11:10:43 AM PDT by liberallarry
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To: liberallarry

It is not my interpretation, it is based upon numerous studies, and you said you agreed with it until I explained what it actually meant to you.

So if you made it an average black kid instead of a white kid then of the 20 IQ point difference 12 points would be due to environment and 8 points would be genetic. If you raised that kid in an “Asian” environment his IQ would be 102 (higher than average), while if you somehow gave him Asian genetics his IQ would only be 98 (slightly below average).

Height distribution is also bell shaped not linear. The distribution of almost any quantifiable trait is bell shaped not linear. This has nothing to do with if it has a genetic or environmental cause or causes.


110 posted on 07/07/2008 12:31:07 PM PDT by allmendream
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